"I'm really curious! Why do you all call her that?" Cecilia Gu deliberately pretended to be curious, looking at them with an eager expression, then raised her eyebrows and mimicked Zara Yun’s signature side-glance.
Sure enough, when they saw Cecilia Gu make that expression, everyone was instantly stunned.
It really felt like someone had stepped right out of a painting!
"Because you are our general!" a young man stared at Cecilia Gu’s face in confusion, already struggling to tell Zara Yun and Cecilia apart. "Our ancestors fought alongside General Yun, so General Yun will always be our family's general."
Cecilia Gu gently laughed, "Then what do you mean by General Keith being buried here?"
The young man blushed instantly when he saw Cecilia Gu smiling at him.
He was shy.
The others noticed Cecilia Gu focusing on that boy and immediately got jealous, rushing to explain: "General Keith took his own life on the day General Yun got married, to show his loyalty. He died on the road where General Yun was married. They say General Keith promised the Qing royal court that if he died, he could protect General Yun’s peace for life. Before he died, General Keith asked to be buried in Yuanshan Village, so he could guard it for General Yun."
Cecilia Gu and Charles Yin were both stunned.
So that's how it was...
Cecilia Gu felt a heaviness in her chest, unable to describe the feeling.
Charles Yin squeezed Cecilia Gu’s fingers a little tighter, as if he could feel it too.
Yeah, how could the Qing royal family let that resistance group off so easily?
If they didn’t kill a few leaders, how could they keep everyone in line?
So Zara Yun married into the royal family, and General Keith had to end his own life to spare the other soldiers.
Charles Yin hadn’t said a word, but just standing there was enough to make him the center of attention.
At that moment, a boy couldn’t help but mutter, "The way he looks at Miss Gu really reminds me of how General Keith looked at General Yun back then."
Maybe the boy just said it casually, but to Cecilia Gu and Charles Yin, it sounded like thunder on a clear day, leaving them both speechless.
Could it be that Yuanshan Village refused to let the project pass through because they wanted to protect General Keith’s grave?
Just then, the village chief and the clan elders arrived, and everyone enthusiastically went to greet them.